When a team of RIBI Rotarians went out to Delhi, India, in February, they were accompanied by the award-winning BBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh.
His reports about the life-saving work of Rotarians, and partners WHO, UNICEF, CDC and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, revealed the success of the polio eradication campiagn but also the need for it to continue until the disease is finally gone.
Since the films were made, India has been removed from WHO’s endemic country list after it succeeded in being disease free for a year. The region still has to record two further years of no new cases of the crippling virus before it can be declared polio free.
